TOP 100 FAMOUS INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT DEMOCRACY

 TOP 100 FAMOUS INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT DEMOCRACY

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." – Winston Churchill

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." – Winston Churchill

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." – Thomas Jefferson

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet." – Abraham Lincoln

"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people." – Abraham Lincoln

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." – George Bernard Shaw 

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." – Oscar Wilde 

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." – John F. Kennedy 

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." – Steve Jobs 

"Democracy is not just the right to vote; it is the right to live in dignity." – Naomi Klein 

"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens." – Alexis de Tocqueville 

"In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility." – Norman Cousins 

"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power." – James Madison 

"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority." – Edmund Burke 

"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing." – Archibald MacLeish 

"A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience." – John Dewey 

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." – Mahatma Gandhi 

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." – E. B. White 

"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." – Aristotle 

"In a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, ‘holds office’; everyone of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities." – John F. Kennedy 

"The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within." – Mahatma Gandhi 

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor." – James Russell Lowell 

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." – H. L. Mencken 

"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy." – H. L. Mencken 

"The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean." – Chen Shui-bian

"The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose." – Barack Obama 

"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor." – James Russell Lowell 

"Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens." – Alastair Farrugia 

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." – George Bernard Shaw 

"Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents." – Robert A. Heinlein 

"The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness." – Niels Bohr 

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people." – Harry Emerson Fosdick 

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." – Abraham Lincoln 

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity." – Irving Kristol 

"In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith." – J. William Fulbright 

"Democracy, like liberty, justice, and other social and political rights, is not given; it is earned through courage, resolution, and sacrifice." – A. Philip Randolph 

"To safeguard democracy, the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness." – Mahatma Gandhi 

"In a democracy, the rule of law is paramount." – George Soros 

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." – H. L. Mencken 

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself." – Jose Marti 

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." – Abraham Lincoln 

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." – George Washington 

"I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong." – Mahatma Gandhi 

"In a democracy, the majority rule is a double-edged sword." – Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." – Daniel Webster 

"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors." – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers." – Aristotle 

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." – James Madison 

"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?" – W. E. B. Du Bois 

"In a democracy, the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." – Hubert H. Humphrey 

"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." – Ronald Reagan 

"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." – Theodore Roosevelt 

"Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority." – Albert Camus

"Democracy is an abuse of statistics." – Jorge Luis Borges

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." – Ronald Reagan

"In democracy, everyone has the right to be heard, but no one has the right to be taken seriously." – Hubert H. Humphrey

"Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself." – Jawaharlal Nehru

"A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic." – Aldous Huxley

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." – E. B. White

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." – George Bernard Shaw

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment." – Robert M. Hutchins

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object." – Thomas Jefferson

"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles." – Woodrow Wilson

"The measure of a democracy is the measure of the freedom of its humblest citizen." – John Murray

"The greatest danger to democracy is the tendency to conform and mediocrity." – Alexis de Tocqueville

"A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." – Adlai Stevenson

"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep." – Mahatma Gandhi

"Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor." – James Russell Lowell

"The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean." – Chen Shui-bian

"The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own individuality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become." – Anna Garlin Spencer

"In a democracy, the freedom of the press and the freedom of the speech must be protected." – Enrique Pena Nieto

"Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them." – Robert, Marquis de Flers and Arman de Caillavet

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." – George Bernard Shaw

"The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy." – Sandra Day O'Connor

"The first duty of a man is to think for himself." – Jose Marti

"A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." – Theodore Roosevelt

"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep." – Mahatma Gandhi

"The key to a healthy democracy is to have citizens actively involved in government." – Michael Moore

"The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out." – Vyacheslav Molotov

"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing." – Archibald MacLeish

"Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority." – Albert Camus

"A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience." – John Dewey

"The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen." – Louis Brandeis

"The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy." – Sandra Day O'Connor

"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart." – Mahatma Gandhi

"In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith." – J. William Fulbright

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." – George Bernard Shaw

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all." – John F. Kennedy

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." – Ralph W. Sockman

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." – Adlai Stevenson

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education." – Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people." – Harry Emerson Fosdick

"In democracy, the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme." – Aristotle

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." – James Madison

"Liberty without learning is always in peril; and learning without liberty is always in vain." – John F. Kennedy

"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy." – H. L. Mencken

"The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality,' but rather the highest measure of participation." – Alain de Benoist

"The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information." – Aldous Huxley

"Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself." – Jawaharlal Nehru

"Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame." – Bertrand Russell